Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910

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dc.contributor.advisorDavey, Arthuren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVan Heyningen, Elizabethen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T12:06:33Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T12:06:33Z
dc.date.issued1989en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 499-534.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a contribution to the social history of medicine and to urban history. It attempts to examine the impact of public health reform on Cape Town society between 1880 and 1910. Accepting the argument that the control of disease is one of the means by which a dominant establishment may assert its authority and impose its ideology in a society, it contends that ideas about the organisation of society were transmitted from metropolitan Britain to the Cape Colony partly through the implementation of public health reform but that such notions became modified in the process. It concludes that health reform was one means by which imperial control was maintained in South Africa and a segregated society was implemented. The "sanitation syndrome" was more than a metaphor. It was a powerful agency for change because it was deeply embedded in the consciousness of Victorian society and provided a scientific rationalisation for the separation of the races and the assertion of white, British, dominance. Topics include the creation of a medical profession at the Cape; the effect of health panics caused by the smallpox epidemic of 1882 and the plague epidemic of 1901 on social relations in the city; the impact of the closure of the cemeteries and the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Acts on different communities in the city; the creation of bureaucracies in local and central government; and mortality in the early twentieth century.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVan Heyningen, E. (1989). <i>Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11560en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVan Heyningen, Elizabeth. <i>"Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11560en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Heyningen, E. 1989. Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Van Heyningen, Elizabeth AB - This thesis is a contribution to the social history of medicine and to urban history. It attempts to examine the impact of public health reform on Cape Town society between 1880 and 1910. Accepting the argument that the control of disease is one of the means by which a dominant establishment may assert its authority and impose its ideology in a society, it contends that ideas about the organisation of society were transmitted from metropolitan Britain to the Cape Colony partly through the implementation of public health reform but that such notions became modified in the process. It concludes that health reform was one means by which imperial control was maintained in South Africa and a segregated society was implemented. The "sanitation syndrome" was more than a metaphor. It was a powerful agency for change because it was deeply embedded in the consciousness of Victorian society and provided a scientific rationalisation for the separation of the races and the assertion of white, British, dominance. Topics include the creation of a medical profession at the Cape; the effect of health panics caused by the smallpox epidemic of 1882 and the plague epidemic of 1901 on social relations in the city; the impact of the closure of the cemeteries and the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Acts on different communities in the city; the creation of bureaucracies in local and central government; and mortality in the early twentieth century. DA - 1989 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1989 T1 - Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910 TI - Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11560 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11560
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVan Heyningen E. Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1989 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11560en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistoryen_ZA
dc.titlePublic health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910en_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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